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Marlins voice Dave Van Horne to be inducted into Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame today

MIAMI _ Marlins radio broadcaster Dave Van Horne, a Palm Beach County resident since 1982, will be inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame today.

Van Horne became the Marlins lead play-by-broadcaster in 2001. He is in his 46th season in major league baseball. He is being inducted along with former Expos third baseman Tim Wallach; Murray Cook, the general manager for three teams including the Expos from 1984-87; and the late Jim Ridley, a former Canadian national team coach and scout.

“Tim Wallach and Dave Van Horne are two names that have become synonymous with the Montreal Expos, and both have had a significant impact on baseball in this country, and Murray Cook and Jim Ridley helped blaze a trail for Canadians in the professional scouting and executive ranks,” said Scott Crawford, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Director of Operations.

In 2011, Van Horne was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown with the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting. In Canada, he received the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Jack Graney Award for contributions to baseball through broadcasting. He is just the second Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee to have won both the Jack Graney and Ford C. Frick awards, joining Tom Cheek.

Van Horne, who lives in Palm Beach Gardens, began broadcasting in the majors in 1969, calling the Expos’ first game on April 8, 1969. He was with organization until the end of the 2000 season. He called the final home game in Expos’ history from the visiting radio booth at Olympic Stadium on September 29, 2004.